Yes, Freda, I read your remarks the first time you posted them in this thread.

What bugs is that I hear something like this, time and time again:

Mudcat lets so-and-so flame all they want, so I have to protect myself and give the flamers what they deserve.

This is outrageous!!! How can Mudcat allow people to post anti-Semitic remarks like that?

And so on, and so on, and so on.
Mudcat doesn't permit that sort of stuff at all - people just do it, and we do what we can to control it without censoring every message before it's posted. Some of it gets past us - but that doesn't mean we permit it.

It's kind of like saying that the US and UK permit crime, since crime exists in both countries. And since it's OK for other people to commit crimes, then it must be even more OK for me to commit crimes, since I'm such a righteous and deserving guy.

My basic point is that we've asked Mudcatters over and over again, to leave the trolls alone so they'll get bored and go away, and so we can deal with them quietly if we need to. I don't care how nasty and obnoxious they are - leave them alone. Don't take their bait.

-Joe Offer-